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Five for Five Minute Friday: Small

I thought I’d try something new today and do a joint post for Five Minute Friday and Five for Friday. If you’ve followed my blog for long, you’ll know that Five Minute Friday is hosted by Lisa-Jo Baker, who issues a word prompt every Friday that hundreds of people then write about for five minutes. Well, I recently came across the Five for Friday link-up party at Doodle Bugs Teaching and thought it would be fun to combine the two and see what I come up with. Five for Friday’s rules are simple: just blog about five random things from today or this week. I think I can do that, and the little bit of direction from Lisa-Jo’s word for this week, small, can only help. So here we go:

Five random things about the word “small” in five minutes:

1. I have never felt smaller than I did this week when I found out that my part-time maid is being beaten by her husband. I want to do something, anything, to make this better, to make it stop, and yet, I have so little power. I can hug her, I can pray, but I can’t make her report him. I can’t make her protect herself. I can’t make her call the numbers I give her. I feel so small. But doing something small is better than doing nothing, so I’m hugging and praying all I can this week!

2. Small people are quite possibly my favorite thing about life on this earth. I just can’t get enough of my little guy’s mushy kisses. He has taken to grabbing my face and pulling it to his and giving me the wettest, slobberiest kisses ever. I love it!

3. Small three year olds can make really big noises. Enough said, perhaps? (But #2 still applies, even when she is driving me bonkers, at which time #4 and #5 come into play!)

4. A small piece of chocolate can literally make everything better, for a few minutes at least. And then I realize that #5 is the only way to go.

5. A small bit of time spent in prayer is even better than chocolate. I feel so small at all the pain and trouble on this earth, and yet I know One who is so much bigger, One who can actually do big things, and He wants to talk and listen to small me.

Well, my time is up. I hope these few random glimpses into my life this week are fun and maybe encouraging for you. Have a great weekend!

Tina is a book-loving, globe-trotting, home-schooling mom of five kids. Her greatest passions are learning with her husband how to live and love like Jesus and teaching others to do the same. She particularly enjoys teaching kids to worship and pray fervently and creatively. She loves music, cooking, and reading, and is a complete sucker for a good redemptive analogy! Tina blogs at mommynificent.com and desperatehomeschoolers.com.

In a SMALL way, I can hear you praising your Savior & Friend for all the SMALL things He blesses you with each day. I’d love some of those small mushy kisses, and the SMALL noises were so fun to hear while visiting. You are richly blessed, and very much loved which are both not SMALL treasures for each day.

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